This FOA establishes an accelerated review/award process to support research to understand health outcomes related to an unexpected and/or time-sensitive event (e.g., emergent environmental threat; pandemic; change in local, state, or national policy; natural disaster). Applications in response to this FOA must demonstrate that the research proposed is time-sensitive and must be initiated with minimum delay due to a limited window of opportunity to collect baseline data, answer key research questions, and/or prospectively evaluate a new policy or program. This FOA is intended to support opportunities in which empirical study could only be available through expedited review and funding, necessitating a substantially shorter process than the typical NIH grant review/award cycle. The time from submission to award is expected to occur within 4-5 months. However, administrative requirements and other unforeseen circumstances may delay issuance dates beyond that timeline.[10/6 Webinar Registration]
Additionally, the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) is holding a technical assistance webinar related to this FOA:
Date: October 6, 2022
Time: 3:00 p.m. EDT
Register: https://scgcorp.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A-eRLDrbTPinDM5i-70bLA [scgcorp.zoom.us]
The webinar will provide an overview of the FOA (PAR-22-233 [lnks.gd]) and provide an opportunity to address participant questions. NIH staff will discuss the purpose and scope of this funding opportunity, go over the scientific review process, and review criteria and other logistical information. Participants should submit their questions in advance of the webinar to Dr. Sarika Parasuraman (sarika.parasuraman@nih.gov) by COB on Tuesday, October 4th. An effort will be made to include all questions in the live discussion, but it is possible that not all will be addressed due to time constraints. Participation in the webinar is recommended but not required in order to apply to this funding announcement.
The NIH Common Fund’s Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Program publishes a new Research Opportunity Announcement (ROA): Community-Led, Health Equity Structural Intervention Initiative (OTA-22-007) to support the development, implementation, assessment, and dissemination of community-led, health equity structural interventions, co-created in partnership with research organizations, that intervene upon structural factors that produce and perpetuate health disparities.
ComPASS is focused on community-led research that will intervene on structural factors that limit the optimization of health. The program aims to develop structural interventions that leverage multi-sectoral partnerships to improve health outcomes of communities, reduce health disparities, and to change systems, policies and practices to achieve optimal health for all.
For more details on how to apply read the full ROA here.
Additionally, NIH staff will hold technical assistance webinars for the required letter of intent (LOI) for all interested applicants on October 4th and October 11th at 2pm-3pm ET. Registration is required. Register here: bit.ly/compass-roa-webinar
Visit https://commonfund.nih.gov/compass [commonfund.nih.gov] for more information about the Common Fund’s ComPASS program, and please sign up for the ComPASS listserv to receive announcements about upcoming funding opportunities and additional program information.
We are looking forward to a lively Seminar and Lecture Series this year and many thanks to Professor Peter Catron for organizing these events. Click here to access our poster or pick one up at our opening reception (September 30, 12:30-1:30 between Raitt & Savery Halls) or visit the CSDE seminar page. This fall our speakers and talks include: Panel on the Washington 2022 Climate and Health Report (Oct. 7); Dr. A.R. Siders (Oct. 14) on the ethical dimensions of climate-related adaptations; Dr. Andres Villareal (Oct. 21) on earnings assimilation across immigrant generations; Dr. Tod Hamilton (Oct. 28) on “Lessons from a Century of Black Migration”; Dr. Zach Ward (Nov. 4) on multigenerational mobility in the U.S.; a panel on applied demography insights from Washington State (Nov. 18); Dr. Liying Luong (Dec. 2) on [insert]; and our famed lightning talks and poster session (Dec. 9). If you want to share your research with a thoughtful community of scholars, don’t hesitate to reach out to Professor Peter Catron (catron@uw.edu) – there are still dates available for winter and spring and we’d LOVE to showcase your work.
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We’re looking forward to the new year with great anticipation. We’ll be enjoying more on-campus opportunities to engage with all of you. We do have good news to celebrate and there will be several opportunities to do so. Our NICHD center grant was renewed for another five years! We’ll be celebrating that event on November 4 from 3:30-5pm – details to follow, but meanwhile put the date and time in your calendar! Our annual opening reception will be held Friday, September 30 from 12:30-1:30pm on the brick patio between Raitt and Savery Halls. We’ll have light refreshments and a few introductions, as well as the seminar series poster to adorn your door or office wall! See you there!
We have many new CSDE staffing updates.
- Our new Evans School RA, also known as the person behind csde@uw.edu, is Isaiah Wright who is an Evans School PhD student working with Scott Allard. We’re so happy to have him in our midst and don’t hesitate to send him a news announcement about a paper, an award, a media mention, or anything else that will be of interest to CSDE scholars.
- Joining us in the Science Core are Dr. Tiffany Pan, the new biodemography lab director (tpan@uw.edu) and Professor Dan Eisenberg (Anthropology) and CSDE’s new Science Core PI (dtae@uw.edu).
- Joining us in the Administrative Core are CSDE Administrator Clint Kruchoski and CSDE Program Coordinator Shea Thompson (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu) Clint joins us from research administration at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Shea joins as from having taught and managed programs in Japan. Shea received his bachelor’s degree from UW Sociology and knows many of our faculty!
- Joining us in the Computing Core is Gary Yuen (csde_help@uw.edu) who will be the person behind our help desk services!
Welcome to all! As we welcome them, we also want to say thank you to Michael Kummer (Physics Administrator) who stepped into the breach to help provide advice and HR support throughout spring and summer. Similarly, Elisha Wilson has been serving as a very helpful, temporary program coordinator and we’ve been grateful for her great attitude and super support. Thanks most of all to Angie Thai and Belinda Sachs who both took on extra work to keep the CSDE trains running on time!
We are looking forward to a lively Seminar and Lecture Series this year and many thanks to Professor Peter Catron for organizing these events. Click here to access our poster or pick one up at our opening reception or visit the CSDE seminar page. This fall our speakers and talks include: Panel on the Washington 2022 Climate and Health Report (Oct. 7); Dr. A.R. Siders (Oct. 14) on the ethical dimensions of climate-related adaptations; Dr. Andres Villareal (Oct. 21) on earnings assimilation across immigrant generations; Dr. Tod Hamilton (Oct. 28) on “Lessons from a Century of Black Migration”; Dr. Zach Ward (Nov. 4) on multigenerational mobility in the U.S.; a panel on applied demography insights from Washington State (Nov. 18); Dr. Liying Luong (Dec. 2) on [insert]; and our famed lightning talks and poster session (Dec. 9). If you want to share your research with a thoughtful community of scholars, don’t hesitate to reach out to Professor Peter Catron (catron@uw.edu) – there are still dates available for winter and spring and we’d love to showcase your work.
Also, please make note of the UW Graduate School’s Public Lectures which will feature distinguished scholars with strong ties to demography. On October 18, Dr. Ann Morning (NYU) will speak about how the idea of the social construction of race is widely accepted in most domains, yet it remains stubbornly absent in two fields – biomedicine and sports – where race is still viewed in terms of an 18th century notion of objective physical reality. On November 2, CSDE Affiliate Jake Grumbach (UW Political Science) will be speaking about democracy and the 2022 midterm elections. Speaking of CSSS, they offer an excellent seminar series – visit here for details. On October 26, CSSS is hosting a talk by CSDE Affiliate Yuan Hsiao (visit here for more details).
Welcome back, CSDE Trainees and Fellows! CSDE has several events and workshops that may be of interest to you as we kick off the 2022-2023 Academic Year. See details below and we hope to see you soon!
Wednesday, September 28
Coffee on the Quad
Join CSDE Trainees, Fellows & Staff for coffee and conversation!
When: 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Where: Between Raitt and Savery Halls
Friday, September 30
CSDE Opening Reception
Join CSDE Trainees, Fellows, Affiliates Staff for light snacks and refreshments!
When: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Where: Between Raitt and Savery Halls
Wednesday, October 5
Computational Demography Working Group
Interdisciplinary forum for discussions of digital and computational approaches to demographic research featuring paper presentations, methods demonstrations, software tutorials and professional development.
When: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Where: Zoom or Raitt (RAI) 223
Thursday, October 6
CSDE Workshop: Intro to R
Learn about R objects, data cleaning & manipulation, and basic graphics in base R and the tidyverse.
When: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Where: Savery (SAV) 117
Thursday, October 13
CSDE Workshop: MS Word for the Social Sciences
Learn easy complex formatting, cross-referencing, captioning, citation management in MS Word and how to use RMarkdown to create replicable Word output.
When: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Where: Savery (SAV) 117
Tenure track position in the Department of Sociology with an emphasis in social networks
With funding from the Washington State Legislature, CSDE Affiliate Jake Grumbach has been tasked with developing a Washington Voters Database and a public-facing website . The funding establishes a statewide database within the University of Washington to serve as a repository of the data necessary to assist the state and all political subdivisions with evaluating whether and to what extent existing laws and practices with respect to voting and elections are consistent with the public policy, implementing best practices in voting and elections, and to investigate potential infringements upon the right to vote. Grumbach is working with CSDE Research Scientist Phil Hurvitz to build the database and website! Look for updates this fall!
The project work will include creating a public-facing web site to be hosted at CSDE, providing information on historic election results and voting trends by spatially demographic information, displayed in interactive maps and tables. Funding includes ongoing support of a TA position for data processing and development of the web site. The first year’s TA will be Inhwan Ko, PhD candidate in Political Science.